NCsoft and Paragon Studios announce that September 13 is when all active subscribers of City of Heroes will be granted headstart access to City of Heroes Freedom, the free-to-play version of the superhero MMORPG. Word is: "To participate in the VIP Headstart and be amongst the first to experience City of Heroes Freedom, players simply need to be active subscribers to City of Heroes and they will automatically be able to enjoy all the VIP benefits and activities starting on September 13. Additionally, lapsed subscribers who reactivate their account and those who sign up to become VIP players now will also take part in the VIP Headstart." This page outlines some of the privileges of VIP players as well as some of the festivities that will accompany their FREEDOM.

Cutter wrote on Sep 10, 2011, 04:05:CO is just too small. I mean what is it? The city plus the desert and the arctic zones? I can't believe how small it is. Definitely not worth a monthly fee for that alone. Plus way too much nickel and diming with the C-store for content that should be going into the game for that monthly fee. I'll have to go back and take a look at it again though. I did create a replica of Fumbles from Robot Chicken though which is just awesome.

Eh, there are only a handful of Zone maps... but they're a lot bigger than most of the Zone maps. Plus they added 2 more zones (1 crappy, 1 that's alright). Though, COH still has more square-kilometers than CO in regards to Zones.

As for the C-Store... all of the content was free for the monthly fees. The only stuff that wasn't were the costumes / bases / travel-powers.

I tried getting back into COH a short while ago, and it's fun. Not as action-y as CO... and while they've updated the graphics since I last played the COH graphics are still a little long-in-the-tooth. But for free, I might hop back in.

"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you." -Fry, Futurama

I'll definitely go back and check it out I still have several mid-level heroes and villains. Muchas the original game missions were far too boring and repetitive I still loved just spending hours making different avatars or just travelling around using rhe various travel powers.

CO is just too small. I mean what is it? The city plus the desert and the arctic zones? I can't believe how small it is. Definitely not worth a monthly fee for that alone. Plus way too much nickel and diming with the C-store for content that should be going into the game for that monthly fee. I'll have to go back and take a look at it again though. I did create a replica of Fumbles from Robot Chicken though which is just awesome.

I will also probably end up giving this a spin again. I played it on release for a while, and then went back to it every now and then during a game lull. It's actually a pretty fun game with a good combat system.